Only 800 lines of resolution?

High latitude, color fidelity and smooth tones as stated are the initial "wow" factor of an image.

So long as its not distractingly soft all is forgiven.
 
TimurCivan said:
High latitude, color fidelity and smooth tones as stated are the initial "wow" factor of an image.

So long as its not distractingly soft all is forgiven.
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I think the most annoying thing I've seen in something like say netflix movies or DVD transfers is compression artifacts. I can live with A LOT of different things, but compression noise (and likewise motion issues like extreme juddering) I cannot enjoy.

Movies I have on DVD I do not generally get on BluRay, as I like what I had and it was fine. The only thing I've re bought is the Aliens BluRay set, and that was well worth it. For some things, and sci fi is usually in this category, artistic content is something I enjoy. I liked being able to see more detail on the sets. For things like comedy or drama, I really don't think anything is to gain from seeing the same streets in LA, NY or what have you. :)
 
800 lines visible vertical resolution as measured on a res chart without significant aliasing is about as good as 1080p HD gets at any price. Not many under $10k HD cameras touch 800 vertical, most are more like 600. Canon DSLR's resolve little more than half that, about 540 lines at best WITH aliasing.
It has been a couple of decades, but the last time I set up a 35mm film projector for a small college theater the visible resolution of the projected black and white test film was about 850 lines vertical.
Get over it.
 
Lets put this DVD thing to bed,the technical spec of DVD is less than MINI DV,I agree resolution is not everything and overall look has to come into projects as well but the resolution has to jump out at me for me to be satisfied,why the big hacking craze and i aint into that[yet]
 
I'd think Inception would look fantastic on Blu-Ray... especially since the highest quality copy I watched was a crappy 35mm print - I think they might have dragged the film across a field of stones before they screened it.
 
ddp said:
I have yet to watch a movie and say afterward "damn if that was on Blu Ray it would have been much better". On my 55" panasonic upconverted SD looks great. Blu Ray looks great too but doesn't make the movies any better.
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Try The Thin Red Line, man!

ddp said:
I watched the Zacuto shootout and the grainy film shots looked best to my eyes.
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Looked great to me too... but then film actually had the highest resolution on their test charts. So maybe you do like resolution after all :P - things can be grainy and high resolution at the same time...

TimurCivan said:
Inception is stunning on BR
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Agree. And not just because I worked on the trailer!

BTW, the final "city becomes the word INCEPTION" render for the teaser title was actually done at 4K (not by me, thank heavens). Quite often stuff is done at 4K these days (and sampled down to 2K at the end) because Maya / Mental Ray / After Effects doesn't have the most perfect anti-aliasing algorithms in the world.

If you go back and look at old trailers on a proper 1080p screen, I'm sure you'd find plenty of artifacts. But film projection used to hide a lot.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
bruceallen said:

Agree. And not just because I worked on the trailer!
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Must have been epic to work with the Nolan. BTW your site seems to be down, Go Daddy is not happy.

David Jimerson said:
Inception on Blu-ray will make you hate HD -- and that's because it's such a beautiful film shot on film that HD can't touch.
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The cinema that showed Inception made me hate film for some time... but Nolan loves shooting on film, you can see that.
 
evanrm said:
Hi,
So if the AF102 doesn't really do 1920x1080, how does it hold when blown up to cinema size?

And the focal length will be the same, it's just the field of view that is smaller. Check out http://www.abelcine.com/fov/
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Don't confuse the frame format, 1920 x1080, with optical resolution of the final image that is a product of the entire chain: Lens, OLPF, sensor, processing, recording codec, post manipulation.
There is not a 1920x1080p HD camera of any kind on the planet that will fully resolve its pixel resolution. The very best resolve around 900 lines vertical and about 1.8K horizontal. True optical resolution does not include visible aliasing that produces false detail.
 
ddp said:
I have yet to watch a movie and say afterward "damn if that was on Blu Ray it would have been much better".
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Actually many people do that, people buy blurays to see the movie in better quality than in their cinema where quality isnt always comparable to watching 1080p on big screen at home.
 
I've seen it on the big screen

I've seen it on the big screen

I've seen AF100 footage on the big screen, and it looks fantastic.
 
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